- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pace is different on a film set. It's slightly slower, allowing for a little more wiggle room. Sometimes there is a bit more room to explore and work on the floor. On a TV set, you really have to be ultra-prepared and ready to deliver because time is so tight. Not that you don't have to be prepared for film.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
- Grunt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020